James Gunn

James Gunn (13 March 1753-30 July 1801) was a US Senator from Georgia from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1801, preceding James Jackson.

Biography
James Gunn was born in Virginia in 1753, and he served in the Continental Army dragoons during the American Revolutionary War. He moved to Georgia after the war and became a Brigadier-General in the Georgia militia in 1792. In 1789, he defeated Anthony Wayne to serve as one of Georgia's inaugural members of the US Senate. He opposed the empowerment of the central government and government treaties with the Creek Native Americans, and he voted in favor of the Jay Treaty, one of only two southern senators to do so. He died in Louisville, Georgia in 1801, just a few months after leaving office.